Collar-button.



N0. 637,!89. Patented Nov. l4, I899. W. 0. WHEELER.

COLLAR BUTTON.

(Application filed Aug. 1 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

I VILLIAM OGDEN WHEELER, OF SHARON, CONNECTICUT.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,189, dated November 14, 1899.

Application filed August 1, 1899. Serial No. 725,792. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM OGDEN WHEELER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sharon, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in C01- lar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification. v I

My invention herein described is an improvement upon the collar-button shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me on the 28th day of February, 1899, No. 620,391.

This improved collar-button herein shown is designed to obviate the necessity or convenience of a pocket either in the collar or the neckband of the shirt and also to give greater steadiness to the button when it is in place.

My improved button is made, as in my aforesaid patent, of thin sheet metal or of any thin material suited to the purpose, such as horn, bone, celluloid, or vulcanized fiber. Its form is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents in plan "iew a plan form of the improved button; Fig. 2, a modified form, also in plan. Fig. 3 shows the button in place in the collar readyfor insertion upon the neckband. Fig. 4 represents a vertical section through collar, neckband, and button, the parts being in place.

Referring to Fig. 1, it will be observed that the parts of the button included in the lines a a and b b are of the same form as the button shown in my said patent, the lower end being adapted to be inserted in the pocket or similar opening in the collar, while the upper end is adapted to be inserted into an opening, such as a horizontal buttonhole, in the neckband. In myaforesaid patent, however, it was necessary that some means should be provided for preventing the button from dropping through the opening in the collar and falling out of place, and the means shown in that patent consisted of a pocket in such collar, the bottom of which sustained the button in place and position. In my improved form of button I have added to this old form, hereinbefore described, the wings e, making the button take the form of a Roman cross. These wings, as will appear by inspection of Fig. 2, sustain the button in place in the collar. In this figure apart of the collar is shown at F, the buttonhole is on the line f f, the lower projection of the button is inserted into this buttonhole, which is in a line parallel with the bottom edge of the collar,and the extended wings project beyond the ends of the buttonhole, thus supporting it and preventing it from falling through. The upper projection G is in position thus held and is ready for insertion into a horizontal buttonhole in the neckband.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 2 the angles are cutaway, giving the button approximately the shape of a Maltese cross. It will be observed that when the lower projection in this form is in the buttonhole of the collar the small projections h h extend down below the line of the buttonhole and in con junction with the central projection on the opposite side of the collar serve to clamp the fabric and prevent the button from tipping. These small projections on the lateral wings of the button need be only upon the lower side; but I prefer to make the button symmetrical in shape, so that it does not matter which wing or corresponding projections be inserted in the buttonhole of the collar. The cut-away angles also allow the button to be inserted farther into the buttonhole and render the hold more secure with the same size of button. I do not confine myself to the precise forms shown, the main features being the lateral extension upon the vertical button and the smaller projections on the lateral wings.

I claim- 1. A collar-button composed of thin material substantially as described, having the vertical wings adapted to enter the horizontal buttonholes in the collar and neckband and.

lateral wings extending beyond the ends of the buttonholes in the buttonhole of the collar.

2. A collar-button composed of thin material substantially as described, having the vertical wings adapted to enter the horizontal buttonholes in the collar and neckband and lateral wings extending beyond the ends of the buttonhole of the collar, said lateral wings having the extensions h h substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM OGDEN WHEELER.

Witnesses:

LAWRENCE VAN ALsTYNE, OTTO PIEDEMAN. 

